Anthony Hopkins is to join forces with Morgan Freeman for a second time in upcoming movie Harry and the Butler.

The Hannibal and The Shawshank Redemption actors will star in the film directed by Steve Bing, which is based upon Danish film Harry og Kammertjeneren. The duo formerly appeared together in Amistad.

Freeman plays a musician who has fallen upon hard times but then finds money again and hires Hopkins as a butler who sets Freeman back on the right path.

Bing, father of Elizabeth Hurley's son, also has Why Men Shouldn't Marry, featuring Woody Allen, in the pipeline.